Short Trips - No Slips

Following past treatments' time line, today was a fairly good day so we crammed the morning with minor errands and then came home to rest.

I finally went and got all my little whispy random left behind hair strands buzzed off (since chemo is done).  Now I look like a cue ball.

Then we attended the Grand Opening of 5 Sip'N Sisters lovely little tea shoppe in Greenwood.  I do not have words to describe how much I want success for this family of hard working little boss chicks.  No one deserves it more or will work harder for it.  They also are "give bakers"  with support for their community and great love and support for their friends and customers.  Go get a big chunk of life girls!  They are at #6 Town Square in Greenwood, AR.

Bought some stuff at the grocery for beef and noodles tomorrow.  And had to visit a hardware store.  Anyone have a solution for an invasion of frogs and toads.  The above ground swimming pool swamp next door sounds like the Okefenokee Swamp.  And they seem to love to camp out on my patio now.  If it isn't birds trying to nest, it's big giant green frogs.  Ughd!

Then this tired old body laid down for a rest and woke up 4 hours later.  But I managed my trip without being terribly unsteady on my feet, but I can feel neuropathy and joint pain approaching the door.  Soon they will knock and come inside and some pretty harsh days will follow.  But, I've survived 5 of these weeks....I can and WILL survive this one too.  I am grateful my sister is here to look after my boys and fetch and carry stuff for me.  I try very hard to not over work her...she's pretty little....and I'm a lot.

This week will be a no work for me....just resting, sleeping, complaining and being cranky.  I have a consult with the radiation doctor on the 8th so I guess the next phase is forthcoming shortly.  I have previously requested those be done here in Fort Smith as they are daily for a month and I'm not into going up the mountain every day.  There are plenty of trips up there already for follow ups etc.  I am so hoping that radiation will not be as intense as chemo was....I've been told it is better....so we pray that is true.

Today, I remember the day I married my husband.  It was a "3rd time is the charm" situation for us both.  Between us we had 6 children...only 2 out of high school.  It was a truly a God sent proposition.  We knew each other....had lived in the same town, he coached my son's baseball team.  I had been a home room mother for one of his boys.  But one day we found our single solitary selves gassing up at the same C-Store that neither of us typically frequented.  I gave him my number and told him to call me some time.  He didn't.  And I forgot.  Then one day my phone rang and it was him, we made a date for that night.  After that night we were rarely apart.  We navigated some pretty ugly water during our marriage.  But, we were always rowing in the same direction....to try to get to calmer shores and safer depths.  We knew everything about each other....there were no secrets held.  The trust was hard built but once it was....it was deep and steady.  We had tiffs, we ran away...but always ran back faster.  He was my heart beat and his last text message to me said "you are the very air I breathe."  That was enough.  He was the finest person I have ever known and I miss him every second of every day.  But I am so glad he has been spared this illness of mine.  Because he hated for anyone he loved to be sick and he would worry himself too much with it.  Here we are on our wedding day....our friend Tom Hughes took our wedding pictures and I love that they are "vintage" black and whites.  It fits.

"So they are no longer two, but one flesh.  Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate."

                                                                    -Matthew 19:6

                                            "There'll never be anyone else, for me, but you."